Team Build Workspaces Make Baby Jesus Cry

Team Build Workspaces Make Baby Jesus Cry

22 Oct, 2008

BuildServer Shane BuildServer
BuildServer Craig BuildServer
BuildServer TFSSETUP BuildServer
BuildServer Keith BuildServer
BuildServer1 TFSSERVICE BuildServer Workspace created by Team Build
BuildServer10 TFSSERVICE BuildServer Workspace created by Team Build
BuildServer12 TFSSERVICE BuildServer Workspace created by Team Build
BuildServer13 TFSSERVICE BuildServer Workspace created by Team Build
BuildServer14 TFSSERVICE BuildServer Workspace created by Team Build
BuildServer16 TFSSERVICE BuildServer Workspace created by Team Build
BuildServer2 TFSSERVICE BuildServer Workspace created by Team Build
BuildServer23 TFSSERVICE BuildServer Workspace created by Team Build
BuildServer28 TFSSERVICE BuildServer Workspace created by Team Build
BuildServer3 TFSSERVICE BuildServer Workspace created by Team Build
BuildServer30 TFSSERVICE BuildServer Workspace created by Team Build
BuildServer31 TFSSERVICE BuildServer Workspace created by Team Build
BuildServer32 TFSSERVICE BuildServer Workspace created by Team Build
BuildServer4 TFSSERVICE BuildServer Workspace created by Team Build
BuildServer6 TFSSERVICE BuildServer Workspace created by Team Build
BuildServer7 TFSSERVICE BuildServer Workspace created by Team Build
BuildServer8 TFSSERVICE BuildServer Workspace created by Team Build
BuildServer9 TFSSERVICE BuildServer Workspace created by Team Build
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From this output we can see that our build service user TFSSERVICE has a lot of workspaces defined. Considering we have 3 builds so far. Something is very wrong here.

Our original error message referenced a workspace named BuildServer_23 which does show up in our list. Using the tf workspace command, we can completely remove the workspace: